Ben Edmestone Barnes(born London, England, June 3, 1903, deceased May 28, 1969, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Also known as Ben Barnes or Professor Barnes, he was for many years Professor of Structural Geology and Geophysics at the Course of Geology of the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto, Brazil[www.google.com]. He obtained his degree of Mining Engineer from the School of Mines of Clausthal (Bergakademie of Clausthal,Germany) and his doctor degree in Scientia Naturalis from the Geological Institute of Halle, Wittenberg(Germany).He had also, degrees in: geophysical engineer by the Institut de Géophysique Appliquée of Strassbourg,France; engineer geologist by the Ècole Nationale de Géologie de Nancy, France; and petroleum geologist by the Institut Français du Pétrole, Paris. After 10 years working in the fields of geology and geophysics with emphasis on petroleum and coal exploration in many countries, Professor Barnes was contracted in 1946 by the National Council of Petroleum of Brazil(Conselho Nacional do Petróleo-CNP)and assigned to the sedimentary basin of Bahia State. Here he began as assistant geologist to the American geologist Dixon in reconnaissance geologic mapping. In July 1949 he started heading his own field geology crew, carrying out relevant geological mapping in the Reconcavo Bahiano Basin. With a large experience in the fields of structural geology and interpretation of geophysics, electrical and stratigraphyc logging, Ben Barnes changed drastically the interpretation of the regional geology of the Reconcavo Region. The previous idea for the basin was that of successive anticlines and synclines. He demonstrated by means of his maps and logs that the structural framework was one of an asymmetrical major graben with internal antithetic and synthetic faults.Later he became Professor of Structural Geology, Geophysics and Petroleum Geology at the Course of Geology of the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto for 5 years. Before this time there were no courses of geology in Brazil. In 1959, during the presidency of Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, 5 courses of geology were creaated in Brasil. This was done by means of CAGE(Campanha de Formação de Geólogos- Campaign for Formation of Geologists. Ben Barnes was a dedicated professor and he regularly took his students for about two months field training in the Reconcavo Bahiano every year. The first five classes of geologists from 1961 to 1965 graduated by the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto, under his influence worked mainly in the fields of the subjetcts he taught. Ben Barnes had only a few papers published in the Bulletin of the CNP, but his scientific thoughts, his high capacity as a teacher and his enthusiasm for polemic matters on the frontier of science, influenced many generations of his students, particularly in the fields of structural geology, geophysics, petroleum geology and mineral deposits. Most of his students, after graduation, worked for PETROBRÁS and for many mining companies or universities in Brazil. Many of them became also influential to later generations of students thus creating a chain of progressive knowledge in the country on the cited fields of the geological sciences. London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. ... June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Ipanema beach A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese) is the name of both a state and a city in southeastern Brazil. ...